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Baptisia
Also called False Indigo, Wild Indigos, False Indigos
Baptisia, or wild indigo, is a genus of hardy perennial legumes with pea-like flowers and pods, native to eastern and southern North America. Commonly grown members such as B. australis are valued for their tough, long-lived, low-maintenance clumps.
Baptisia (wild indigo, false indigo) is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae. They are flowering herbaceous perennial plants with pea-like flowers, followed by pods, which are sometimes inflated. They are native to woodland and grassland in eastern and southern North America. The species most commonly found in cultivation is B. australis.
Baptisia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the jaguar flower moth, Schinia jaguarina.
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